This is not a man with a blog.
We were in the cab riding back to the airport on Maui. We had fifteen hours of flight time before
we would return to cold wet Washington. "So," I asked the cabdriver, "how many times a day do you hear some tourist say ‘I never want to leave!’"
"I am sick," he said, "of people saying this is paradise. We have all the major problems of a big city. People commit suicide here, they have drug problems, they get into fights and shoot each other. Just the same as any other city."
He didn’t actually quote Buckaroo Banzai when he said it, but he might as well have said the famous line, "Wherever you go, there you are."**
Aloha bitches! In response to the questions from Joe and Chad in my last post, here are some answers: The two places I frequent are Thaigem.com and Multicolour.com. You can get many items there aren’t that expensive, and you always have the option of returning it for a refund. That can take a week or…
To know me is to know my fascination with rare and semi-precious gems. All Sarah’s jewelry was handpicked by me, and in most cases, designed by me after I personally acquired the loose stones involved. Thankfully, Sarah doesn’t have a diamond jones, so this hobby isn’t requiring me to break into my IRA to fund…
Oh my god, I’m crying I’m laughing to hard… Link: YouTube – SNL – The Chronic of Narnia Rap.
How stupid do you have to be to run a raked* poker game in Northern Virginia after Fairfax County has clearly announced its intention to bust all such games? They raided the Centreville and Reston games, held a press conference talking about how illegal it was, and then made sure the operators each pulled a…
"Five Years", one of my favorite Bowie songs, describes how the Earth is dying and with only five years left, how much of life Bowie wants to experience. My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spareI had to cram so many things to store everything in there He’s overwhelmed at the…
While I frequently don’t agree with either the goals of the Bush Administration, I just assumed they bought into the whole concept of the rule of law. Now it appears that the President (or more likely his advisors) flagrantly disregarded the law, signing executive orders to spy on Americans on the flimsiest of pretenses. I…
Ironically, I’m going to tell you how bad this movie and then create an Amazon.com affiliates link so I get a slight profit for all the none of you that buy it. I’ll make you a deal: if I tell you about a bad movie, I’ll recommend a good one as well. I’m a zombie…
When applying for jobs where written communication is a core skill, you can enhance your chances of getting hired by doing the following things in your resume: Make up entirely new plural versions of nouns that aren’t in the dictionary. Indeed, we will all be very excited to ask you in the interview about the…
One more thing you shouldn’t miss in the Sunday NYT: Coach Leach Goes Deep, Very Deep by Michael Lewis, also author of the seminal work on the application of advanced statatistical analysis to baseball, Moneyball. I’m not what you’d consider a baseball fan, but reading Moneyball was a riveting experience. It was amazing to watch…